Thursday, April 30, 2009
~ 4/30/2009 07:27:00 PM ~
I need mood to blog.
I must be free.
I must have “blog-able” things to blog.
Fortunately, I have all of them today, how very rare and amazing.
Alright, I’m sure Jin Yong is not an alien name to all of you. He’s a famous Cantonese Wu Xia (Novels on Martial Arts) author in China, and in fact, in the rest of Asia where people speak Chinese. Singapore is no exception. For a matter of fact, I saw Keith read his novels last year. So yeah. Well, I’m not going to fill my entire entry with Jin Yong’s life story, nor am I going to talk about his well-known novels such as She Diao Ying Xiong Zhuan (Heros and Vulture Hunters) and Shen Diao Xia Lu (Legendary Vulture, Heroic Couple). I just want to highlight one point. In his novels, the Wu Shu masters always have one or two ultimate moves of their own, and not known by masters from other gangs. This results in masters trying hard to learn each other’s ultimate moves secretly in order to be more powerful, and eventually, invincible. I kind of borrowed that idea. Well, at least can draw some parallel between this and a floorball experience today.
Pardon me to be unable to go into the details since I’m an amateur in floorball and don’t know the terms they use for each technique. Mat, thanks for lending your floorball stick to me to play for a good one hour and a half. I played with Theen Yew first, by mainly trying to shoot into each other’s gate and score and I was beaten. Then he lost to Jun Yang. After which, I played against Jun Yang. I just cannot control the Bucky Ball shaped ball – okay, they are both balls anyway – but somehow I managed to observe a few moves from him, attempting to apply them and scored a few, while Jun Yang scored steadily with invulnerable defence and swift attack. But soon we lost count and fight for the ball, and I learnt a lot more staff. This is more fun than just simply trying to shoot into each other’s gate, what was of inconvenience was just that we had to search for the ball from under the sofas, tables and other trash whenever we lost it. Where was Kaizen then? With his Twilight. I didn’t go because Min Yun said she’s got the DVD. Whoever read the book said it is spectacular. I didn’t touch the book since I bought it. Well, I don’t think I’m reading it any time soon either.
Okay, I shifted the boring portion of the entry to the back:
I did not expect today to pass this way, especially when it seemed that my morning has been following a propensity of weariness. Physics lecture was boring, and I has been nodding off for a few seconds for several times before came back into focus. I did that when I sensed the lecturer was going to explain something important, because when I dozed off for that few seconds I was actually following the lecture. Not entirely though, and I actually regretted that I did not completely fall asleep during this lecture today. It continued on during GP, this caused me to be rather quiet during the lesson, and for a few occasions I just switched off. The teacher noticed, and asked me to present the answer. I was lazy to write down the answer previously, so I had to think while standing in front of the board. It was rather embarrassing, and I was aware that the teacher was watching with the corner of my eyes. But somehow I pulled through, and amazingly, my answer was not entirely wrong.
There was only one free period today, as my Chinese Lit teacher decided to add Reinforcement or Further Improvement lessons – whatever you call that – every week. And this free period is actually my lunch break. Knowing I was going to have a double Chinese Lit, a Maths and a Physics Mock SPA, I knew I had to get myself some coffee already. I say “had to” because I per se did not drink it often unless I had no choice. With stomach rich in lunch and coffee (next time I should switch to latte), I was super energetic in what was left of the morning, and of course, the entire afternoon. The Chinese Lit lessons revised a piece of essay written by a famous official in Jin Dynasty. Perhaps what you all have heard of are Qing Dynasty and Tang Dynasty, but yeah, Jin Dynasty was an even earlier era, and the essay was well argued. Or perhaps the reason why it aroused my interest today was that the teacher was better (this was an essay taught last year) or the effect of coffee.
We discussed about [modesty and inner peace] and [moderate ambitiousness] as well. The phrases in each pair of the square brackets describe a single word. It would be something even more bombastic and complex if I translated into Chinese, but this English version is the best I can come up with so far. We talked about how [moderate ambitiousness] can gain us altitude, and [modesty and inner peace] can provide us with gentleness. However, we can only apply the latter after achieving the former. It is logical as well. If there is no altitude and achievements, there will be no place – if not, then ludicrous – for Men to be self-contented and confident, because that confidence will be tantamount to inanity. Something profound and insightful right?
This holiday will be good, though my tuition teacher strongly encouraged to sit down and labour on Organic Chem during Labour Day. Hopefully I can have time to gym this week. Actually the chance is slim. I will most probably resume it next week before going for the Camp the week after.
Saturday, April 04, 2009
~ 4/04/2009 03:25:00 PM ~
I’d better update my blog before I forgot the password. Now I miss my home much more than ever for some reason indescribable with words. My family, my best friends, and the city I am so familiar with. Stream of consciousness always occurred to me. I know everybody has this stream of consciousness, but sometimes my consciousness, my memory can retrospect back for many years. Complex thoughts and emotion, are just like the montage, which actually means a rapid succession of different images or shots in a movie. Is that the last few stages of growing up? I do not have a single clue, but by guesswork, the answer is evident.
I subscribed a broadband from SingTel last weekend and I am euphoric, because I finally do not need to be disappointed by the poor connections in the hostel or going through the process of asking around my juniors to see if they happen to have a spare one. I will surely enjoy the leisure time spent on the Internet. Friendster, Facebook, Xiaonei (On-Campus), QQ, MSN…yeah.
Last year, school always ended earlier so I was able to use the school gym for fitness, but it is not the case of this year, I can only spare one hour or so on Thursday afternoon. The badminton school team is training there as well, so it is naturally slightly crowded, but not a big deal. Last year I my friends were not able to gym with me regularly. It is rather difficult to arrange a common time slot to gym or play basketball. But fortunately I have one this year, and both of us are improving faster than ever. Clarence has said that “I eat, I happy.” Here I must add on, that “I eat, I train, and I happy.”
Yesterday was Track and Field Day, Alpha Warriors have put in enormous effort in the races and cheerleading. Unfortunately, we were not privileged the moment of hoisting the trophy for the Champion of Cheerleading. But the Alpha Cheerleaders are always the champions in my heart, for the pain, the joy, the sweat and the tear they have experienced. This is the spirit of warriors, the spirit I respect highly of. Hereby I quote Mat, that “the essence of creativity is to face failure with no fear.” He is right. The Alpha Cheerleading 09 is the incarnation of creativity and delight. Perhaps they did not get the title this time, but for the initiative for innovation, the boldness, audacity of innovation, and the confidence of innovation, they are first class, and no one else can outdo them.
House Committee nomination has already started and HC Camp is drawing near, the event I has been longing for the entire year. The planning is on the way. Exciting, is it not? I just could not wait for that day to come, and after which I could blog about it.
